Example 2—Permitting Access to a Single Member

In this example, the database role has access to cells for the Cost measure, but does not have access to cells for any other measure. The following expression is the Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) expression that sets these permissions:

Based on these cell data permissions for this database role, a query on all cells returns the result set shown in the following table.

Continent

Region

Cost

Cost

Revenue

Revenue

Tax

Tax

1997

1998

1997

1998

1997

1998

Asia

.

1453

2507

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

.

Japan

1111

2009

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

.

Korea

342

498

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

Europe

.

1309

1514

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

.

France

864

931

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

.

Germany

445

583

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

N. America

.

2745

2544

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

.

Canada

622

511

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

.

USA

2123

2033

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

#N/A

Important:

If a Microsoft Windows user or group belongs to multiple database roles, a query on all cells would first result in a dataset being generated based upon each database role to which the user or group belongs. Then, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS) combines all these datasets into one dataset, and returns that combined dataset to the user or group.